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- Mass WordPress hijack poisons Google Image well
- India cracks down on the Blackberry
- AMD slips into desktop RAM biz
- IBM yanks chain on 'Blue Waters' super
- Apple sued over Mac OS X 'quick boot'
- Hackers breach chocolate recipe on Hershey website
- Specs set for 3D specs tech
- EMC trundles out deduping mainframe VTL
- RIM to turn in BlackBerry-using looters after London riots
- Apple delivers Orange aid
- GE brings holographic storage back from the dead
- Gordon Ramsay sues father-in-law over alleged spyware plot
- Use found for Twitter <i>and</i> Liz Jones
- Home Office farms out tech deal worth £40m
- HP Envy 17 3D Core i7 laptop
- TelecityGroup swallows Data Electronics
- 10-year old hacker finds flaw in mobile games
- BBC testing fix for iPlayer on iPad ... 6 months later
- School caned for losing 20K details
- BBC bigs up iPlayer for TVs and consoles
- Lightning strikes cloud: Amazon, MS downed
- iPad racketeers' high wire exploits falter
- Vblocks bleed out EMC money
- Audio Pro WF100 wireless streamer
- The Ethernet traffic mix-up
- Google fights to hide incriminating emails
- Anonymous and LulzSec spew out largest ever police data dump
- Chip makers to strut their stuff at Hot Chips 23
- HP industrial action starts today
- Cray CTO Scott departs
- Ofcom report: Mobile operators feel the squeeze
- Beware of Macs in enterprise, security consultants say
- Fujitsu CTO: Flash is just a stopgap
- Telstra sets date, but not speeds, for <strike>4G</strike> LTE release
- Antimatter close to home
- Activision rolled for too much avatar rock
- Caltech sends light on a one-way trip
- NSN ditches Motorola staff
| Mass WordPress hijack poisons Google Image well Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:27 PM PDT Mystery doorway planted in 4000+ sitesHackers are abusing thousands of independent WordPress sites to litter Google Image search results with code that redirects users to servers that attempt to infect them with malware.… |
| India cracks down on the Blackberry Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:05 PM PDT Gov can't hack it so might be bannedThe use of the humble Blackberry may be outlawed in India if Research in Motion fails to comply with the government's strict security demands.… |
| AMD slips into desktop RAM biz Posted: 08 Aug 2011 01:29 PM PDT Memory gets its RadeonAMD is entering the desktop RAM market, according to a new page on its website.… |
| IBM yanks chain on 'Blue Waters' super Posted: 08 Aug 2011 11:51 AM PDT Power7 petaflops behemoth gets flushedIBM has pulled the plug on the "Blue Waters" petaflops-class, Power7-based supercomputer that it was contracted to build for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.… |
| Apple sued over Mac OS X 'quick boot' Posted: 08 Aug 2011 11:37 AM PDT Battle of the, um, CONFIG.SYSA lawsuit has accused Apple of violating a patent describing a means of "quickly booting a computer system".… |
| Hackers breach chocolate recipe on Hershey website Posted: 08 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT Possible data theftHackers breached the security of a website operated by US confectionery giant Hershey Company and may have made off with customers' names, birthdates, street and email addresses, and site passwords.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2011 10:22 AM PDT About bloody timeA handful of leading 3D TV manufacturers have today announced their intent to work together on standardising active 3D glasses technology.… |
| EMC trundles out deduping mainframe VTL Posted: 08 Aug 2011 08:51 AM PDT Bus-Tech allied to Data DomainEMC is bringing out a mainframe virtual tape library to cover both primary and backup data needs.… |
| RIM to turn in BlackBerry-using looters after London riots Posted: 08 Aug 2011 08:42 AM PDT Empathetic RIM plans to help policeBlackBerry UK has broken silence over the role its devices played in helping disaffected London yoof co-ordinate riots in Tottenham, Brixton, Enfield and Walthamstow this weekend.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2011 08:30 AM PDT iTunes movies in cellco giveawayOrange is again rewarding its customers with film content after teaming up with iTunes to offer a free movie download every week.… |
| GE brings holographic storage back from the dead Posted: 08 Aug 2011 08:01 AM PDT Format might erupt in the sectorThe dormant holographic storage volcano has rumbled, reminding us that it's not extinct and may yet erupt.… |
| Gordon Ramsay sues father-in-law over alleged spyware plot Posted: 08 Aug 2011 07:52 AM PDT Cooking up troubleSweary celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is suing members of his wife's family, alleging they used malware to gain illicit access to his business and personal email accounts.… |
| Use found for Twitter <i>and</i> Liz Jones Posted: 08 Aug 2011 06:35 AM PDT Teasing twit raises twenty grandHats off to "DMReporter" who created a spoof Twitter feed for Liz Jones's trip to Somalia to cover the famine.… |
| Home Office farms out tech deal worth £40m Posted: 08 Aug 2011 06:34 AM PDT 4-year contract for border cops' Employers' Checking ServiceThe Home Office has tendered for a range of services worth £40m as part of the Employers' Checking Service (ECS), including a web-based interface, data storage, biometric chip reading technology and related support services.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:45 AM PDT Tasty 3D take awayReview After years of computer journalists telling me – erroneously, I hasten to add – that my next desktop PC will be a laptop, it's pleasing to see manufacturers such as HP trying to make it happen.… |
| TelecityGroup swallows Data Electronics Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:42 AM PDT Data centre provider coughs up £87.6m for rivalTelecityGroup has splashed £87.6m in cash on Irish-based fellow colocation data centre provider Data Electronics in what promises to be the first of many acquisitions.… |
| 10-year old hacker finds flaw in mobile games Posted: 08 Aug 2011 04:56 AM PDT Feeling old?A 10-year-old hacker has won the admiration of her adult peers for finding a previously unknown vulnerability in games on iOS and Android devices.… |
| BBC testing fix for iPlayer on iPad ... 6 months later Posted: 08 Aug 2011 04:52 AM PDT Beeb: Too technical to explain to you folksThe BBC is testing a fix for problems experienced by iPad users when using the iPlayer app. The fix is eagerly awaited by many iPad users, some of whom reported not being able to watch programmes when the app was launched back in February.… |
| School caned for losing 20K details Posted: 08 Aug 2011 04:49 AM PDT How much?A Hampshire school has been criticised for losing nearly 20,000 people's personal details.… |
| BBC bigs up iPlayer for TVs and consoles Posted: 08 Aug 2011 04:05 AM PDT PS3 gets first lookThe BBC has tweaked its iPlayer for TVs and set-top boxes, launching the "custom-built for the living room" redesign through Sony's PlayStation 3.… |
| Lightning strikes cloud: Amazon, MS downed Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:58 AM PDT Down and still out in DublinMicrosoft has been left reeling again after another BPOS crash but at least on this occasion it was not alone, as Amazon's EC2 web services were also downed by the same act of God in Europe.… |
| iPad racketeers' high wire exploits falter Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:49 AM PDT Jobs on the lineChinese smugglers have been caught transporting a host of Apple goods over a zip-line into Hong Kong in a bid to profit from tax differences.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:35 AM PDT VCE = virtual cash erosionVCE – the Cisco-EMC-VMware Vblock company – appears to be experiencing virtual cash erosion, with EMC reporting $132m of accumulated losses.… |
| Audio Pro WF100 wireless streamer Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:33 AM PDT Dongle up your hi-fiGeek Treat of the Week Anyone who's tried wireless tech over the years knows how tricky and expensive it can be to get superior sounding audio around the home without wires. Step forth Swedish hi-fi brand Audio Pro, that has come up with a user friendly package that gives you a wireless transmitter/receiver duo.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:31 AM PDT Ethernet communications convergence conumdrumExpert Clinic The possibility of converging storage traffic, with its restrictive profile, on to general messy Ethernet LAN traffic is now a distinct possibility. What are the underlying problems and how are they being dealt with and countered?… |
| Google fights to hide incriminating emails Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:18 AM PDT You said what? To whom?Google is fighting to hide an email in which it seems to admit to knowingly infringing the Java patents, but with the text already public it will be a hard fight to win.… |
| Anonymous and LulzSec spew out largest ever police data dump Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:16 AM PDT Hacktivists run wild in global revenge hacksHacktivists have released a huge cache of stolen data from US law enforcement agencies as revenge for the arrest of alleged members of LulzSec and Anonymous.… |
| Chip makers to strut their stuff at Hot Chips 23 Posted: 08 Aug 2011 02:27 AM PDT Many-cored versus monolithsThe Hot Chips 23 symposium on high-performance chips kicks off at Stanford University next week. The makers of processors for smartphones, desktops, servers, and networking gear are polishing up their powerpoints to amaze and daze each other from August 17 through 19.… |
| HP industrial action starts today Posted: 08 Aug 2011 02:18 AM PDT PCS members plan disruptions to offshoring processUnionised HP staff working on the Department for Work and Pensions Adam 2 contract are today starting industrial action over proposals to offshore their jobs to India amid government pressure on IT suppliers to cut costs.… |
| Posted: 08 Aug 2011 01:57 AM PDT 'Taking senior position' at Cray tech partnerSteve Scott, the long-time chief technology officer at supercomputer maker Cray, gave his two weeks' notice last week. Actually, it was more like 11 days, which is not exactly a lot of warning for a company like Cray. But it looks like Scott was presented with an offer he just could not pass up, and tongues are wagging about just what that might be.… |
| Ofcom report: Mobile operators feel the squeeze Posted: 07 Aug 2011 10:21 PM PDT They build the networks. Facebook takes the revenueOfcom's annual assessment of communication industry shows that mobile revenue is still way down on 2008, but usage is way up, forcing operators to find new ways to cut costs and increase revenues.… |
| Beware of Macs in enterprise, security consultants say Posted: 07 Aug 2011 10:02 PM PDT OS X in the age of espionage malwareBlack Hat Apple may have built its most secure Mac operating system yet, but a prominent security consultancy is advising enterprise clients to steer clear of adopting large numbers of the machines.… |
| Fujitsu CTO: Flash is just a stopgap Posted: 07 Aug 2011 09:00 PM PDT Necessary, but not the final destinationFlash is a necessary waystation as we travel to a single in-memory storage architecture. That's the view from a Fujitsu chief technology officer's office.… |
| Telstra sets date, but not speeds, for <strike>4G</strike> LTE release Posted: 07 Aug 2011 08:12 PM PDT Mobile fans hold their breathTelstra is bringing forward its first LTE-based service, from the end-of-year launch promised in February, to the end of this month.… |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT An anomaly in the south Atlantic, apparentlyAs anyone who follows big physics knows, the best way to trap anti-matter is with a magnetic field: that way, you can prevent the mutual annihilation that results from interactions with normal matter.… |
| Activision rolled for too much avatar rock Posted: 07 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT Band Hero upsets real life rock starActivision has attracted to legal ire of yet another disgruntled rock star objecting to animated immortalization in Guitar Hero spinoff game Band Hero.… |
| Caltech sends light on a one-way trip Posted: 07 Aug 2011 03:42 PM PDT Optical computing gets a small step closerA group of Caltech researchers is claiming what it describes as a key breakthrough in photonic computing: an optical diode using linear, rather than non-linear, materials.… |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2011 03:32 PM PDT 1,500 global roles to goNokia Siemens Networks is shedding 1,500 positions globally from the Motorola Solutions division that it acquired in May.… |
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